Welcome to the Public Test Realm

Practice you dream of influencing your favorite zombie survival game? Do you beloved getting your hands on new features before anyone else and making them better? Do you secretly wish you could exist a QA tester? Bring together the Public Examination Realm, the open beta for Land of Disuse two: Juggernaut Edition, open now!

The Life And Times of Playtesting

We are continuing active development on the game, from mechanics to features. Equally developers, we always want thespian feedback every bit we make changes. There's no better way to practice that than by hearing from you before those changes even ship.

Once yous're in the open beta, you lot'll exist shown a QR lawmaking that links to a survey. The QR code and the push to take the survey are available at all times from the break screen. You lot will use that to give us your honest feedback. Exist certain to bring together the developers and your beau testers in our official Discord (join the Public Test Realm channel!)

Our master goal is to brand sure nosotros're creating changes yous enjoy, that enhance your gameplay experience. The added bonus is that we become to be more transparent with you lot virtually what we're making and why.  Win-win!

Introducing Plague Territories, Landmark Outposts, and Upgradeable Outposts

We've added three new features to enhance the strategic claiming of the game. All three affect the map in ways that won't testify up for existing communities, and then yous must change maps (or map difficulty) to try them out. All new communities will have these features enabled by default.

Plague Territories are infected regions controlled by plague hearts. You cannot claim a home site or an outpost within plague territory until you accept defeated the nearby plague middle that controls that location. Note that some locations may be "claimed" by multiple plague hearts with overlapping territories!

Landmark Outposts are unique sites that offer three dissimilar benefit strategies to cull from when y'all claim them as an outpost. Each map features ane such outpost for you to attempt.

Resource Outposts (the ones that offer Food, Ammo, etc) now allow you to upgrade them to enhance their benefits.

When yous've tried the new features, please follow the link to fill out the survey. We're running this beta specifically to hear your thoughts!

Getting Started

Tl;dr? We got yous. Here are the quick links.

  1. All the FAQ about the Public Test Realm
  2. A visual guide to opting in
  3. Reminder: You tin access the survey by opening the QR code anytime while your beta game is paused. We recommend a couple hours of experimentation with the new features first!

About the Public Test Realm

On your kickoff launch of the Test Realm build, your communities from the Retail version volition be transferred over, if you had whatsoever. Note: from this point forward, your save is forked. Whatsoever progress or changes you make in the Test Realm volition non copy back to the Retail version, and vice versa. You can freely return to playing in the Retail version of State of Decay 2 at any time. Your communities will exist exactly equally you left them.

Multiplayer will work in the Public Test Realm, only only with other Test Realm players. When we are non actively testing features in the Exam Realm, we will push the Retail version of the game to this environment. Encounter our FAQ for more than answers to questions like these.

Because this is a long-term open beta, you volition exist the first to playtest all ongoing improvements to State of Disuse two: Juggernaut Edition. The content and focus of the beta will alter as nosotros develop these new features and mechanics.

Yous tin can learn about the about recent beta content in future Steam updates and on our newsletter specific to beta test subscribers, so be sure to sign up to exist notified.

Thanks for Your Help!

The Public Test Realm is open and available now. We appreciate the time and feedback yous're providing — and then volition the many players whose experiences are improved considering of your efforts.

–State of Disuse two Development Team